In the final regular season Cross Country Meet of the year for the Bear Lake /Onekama Cross Teams . The bus departed Bear Lake at 7:00 a.m headed towards the Elk Rapids Inv. On a windy cloudy morning with the temperatures in the mid 50’s and rising during the morning hours 

 At 9:00 a.m. the first to run was the Girls JV runners with 51 runners in it from all 4 Divisions. Bear Lake/Onekama had one runner, Katerine Schomke, who finished in 26^th place with a time of 25:13

Next to run was the JV boys.  Again all 99 runners from all four divisions were put in one bracket. The Boys overall finish was 6^th place as a team There order of finished is as follows: 

• 27^th Weston Brooks                 19:45

• 31^st Louis Bartlett                   19:53

• 54^th Ian Smith                         20:50

• 90^th Patrick Spalding               22:46

• 94^th Justin Brown                    24:27

For the Girls Varsity Team they ran all four divisions together then sorted them out in to Div.1&2 and Div.3&4 The girls finished in 6^th place with Div. 3&4 schools  First Benzie Central (Div. 3) 43 pts., 2^nd Harbor Springs (Div.4) 69 pts., 3^rd Kingsley (Div.3)103 pts., 4^th Elk Rapids(Div.3) 120 pts. 5^th Manton (Div.4) 152 pts., 6^th Bear Lake/Onekama (Div. 4) 179 pts. 7^th Glen Lake (Div.4) 185pts., 9^th Traverse City St. Francis (Div. 4) 217 pts.;13^th Mesick(Div.4) 364 pts. Suttons Bay didn’t have enough runners. Our girls overall finish with Div 3&4 schools  which had 91 runners is:

• 20^th Brenna Miller                    21:32 (Medal)

• 37^th Shelby Sidor                    22:46

• 38^th Tobi Schoedel                   22:50

• 40^th Elizabeth Schoedel            23:12

• 44^th Katie Alkire                      23:21

• 50^th Taylor Hagen                    23:39

• 62^nd Anna Veverica                  24:15

For the Varsity Boys Team they ran all four  Divisions together then sorted them out into Div. 1&2 and Div 3&4. The Boys finished 4^th place with Div.3&4 schools. First Benzie Central (Div.3) 42 pts., 2^nd Elk Rapids (Div.3) 65 pts., 3^rd Harbor Springs (Div.4) 89pts.; 4^th Bear Lake/Onekama (Div.4) 129 pts. ; 5^th Manton (Div.4) 170 pts., 8^th Traverse City St. Francis (Div.4) 179 pts., 9^th Suttons Bay (Div.4) 205.  Glen Lake and Mesick didn’t have enough runners. Our Boys overall finish with Div.3&4 schools which had 79 runners;

• 16^th Chuck Schoedel              17:54 Medal

• 19^th Jordan Maxey                18:05 Medal

• 30^th Jaron Llewellyn              18:55

• 33^rd Danny Brown                  19:04

• 34^th Justin Zupin                   19:09

• 36^th Ryan Pienta                    19:14

• 42^nd John Evans                    19:31

For our Varsity Girls and Boys up next is Regionals at Benzie Central next Saturday Oct. 27^th Girls run at 2:45 p.m. and Boys at 4:15 p.m. Good Luck to Coach Ross our  2 Senior Boys Jordan Maxey and Justin Zupin and the rest of the runners next Saturday at Benzie. The alternate  runner for the girls is Katherine Schomke and for the boys it is Weston Brooks.

Also Thanks very much to Senior Jade Wethy and Alex Callaway whose injuries and illness have kept them from running most of season for being at the finishing line writing the runners times down as they cross the finish line. We are still waiting to see what Coach Ross T-Shirt looks like. Coach Ross said he hasn’t got his T- Shirt yet .

Middle School Report